Held under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Bahrain His Royal Highness Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the 12th Middle East Geosciences Conference & Exhibition (GEO 2016) concluded on 10 March having attracted a total of 3,784 attendees.

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The biannual event, established 22 years ago, incorporated a 4-day high-level conference organised by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), and a parallel 3-day exhibition organised by Allworld Exhibition’s member Arabian Exhibition Management.

GEO 2016 was also supported by an organising committee of national oil companies, independent oil companies and regional geoscience societies. In 2016, the committee was chaired by Mubadala Petroleum’s Chief Executive Officer Musabbeh Al Kaabi.